Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:22:08 -0500
From: "Jerry (NMN) Miller"
Subject: Re: Derivation of Jake
Okay, so Jake/Jacob became associated with toilets; how then did Jake, the
toilet, become a slang synonym for okay or all right, as in "everything is
Jake," a term I remember from my youth but my younger colleague (early
thirties) never heard of? Or did that come pouring out of the bottle with "jake
leg" rum?
Just curious.
Jerry (whose slangs uses we probably already are aware of)